Publications

Glendening AM, Stephens C, Vuruputoor VS, Chaganti T, Myles MN, Stern DL, Abdelalim M, Juang Y, Hogenhout SA, Mathers TC, Pauloski N, Cernak TA, Wegrzyn JL, Fetter KC. 2026. Chromosome scale genomes of two invasive Adelges species enable virtual screening for selective adelgicides. G3 (Bethesda), 16(1), jkaf232. https://doi.org/10.1093/g3journal/jkaf232

Kirbis A, Rahmatpour N, Dong S, Yu J, Waser L, Huang H, van Gessel N, Waller M, Reski R, Lang D, Rensing SA, Temsch EM, Wegrzyn JL, Goffinet B, Liu Y, Szövényi P. 2025. Comparative analysis using a chromosome-scale genome assembly for Funaria hygrometrica suggests greater collinearity in mosses than in seed plants. Commun Biol, 8, 330. https://doi.org/10.1038/s42003-025-07749-x

Castellano KR, Neitzey ML, Starovoitov A, Barrett GA, Reid NM, Vuruputoor VS, Webster CN, Storer JM, Pauloski NR, Ameral NJ, McEvoy SL, McManus MC, Puritz JB, Wegrzyn JL, O'Neill RJ. 2025. Genome assembly of a living fossil, the Atlantic horseshoe crab Limulus polyphemus, reveals lineage-specific whole-genome duplicaitons, transposable element-based centromeres, and a ZW sex chromosome system. Mol Biol Evo, 42(2), msaf021. https://doi.org/10.1093/molbev/msaf021

Vuruputoor VS, Starovoitov A, Cai Y, Liu Y, Rahmatpour N, Hedderson TA, Wilding N, Wegrzyn JL, Goffinet B. 2024. Crossroads of assembling a moss genome: navigating contaminants and horizontal gene transfer in the moss Physcomitrellopsis africana. G3 (Bethesda), 14(7), jkae104. https://doi.org/10.1093/g3journal/jkae104

Figueroa Corona L, Baesen K, Bhattarai A, Kegley A, Sniezko RA, Wegrzyn JL, De La Torre AR. 2024. Transcriptional profiling of early defense response to white pine blister rust infection in Pinus albicaulis (whitebark pine). Genes, 15(5):602. https://doi.org/10.3390/genes15050602

Bryant MJ, Coello AM, Glendening AM, Hilliman SA III, Fernanda Jara C, Pring SS, Rodríguez Rivera A, Santiago Membreño J, Nigro L, Pauloski N, Graham MR, King T, Jokusch EL, O'Neill RJ, Wegrzyn JL, Santibáñez-López CE, Webster CN. 2024. Unveiling the genetic blueprint of a desert scorpion: A chromosome-level genome of Hadrurus arizonensis provides the first reference for parvorder Iurida. Genome Biol Evo, 16(5), evae097. https://doi.org/10.1093/gbe/evae097

Neale DB, Zimin AV, Meltzer A, Bhattarai A, Amee M, Figueroa Corona L, Allen BJ, Puiu D, Wright J, De La Torre AR, McGuire PE, Timp W, Salzberg SL, Wegrzyn JL. 2024. A genome sequence for the threatened whitebark pine. G3 (Bethesda), 14(5), jkae061. https://doi.org/10.1093/g3journal/jkae061

Guzman-Torres CR, Trybulec E, LeVasseur H, Akella H, Amee M, Strickland E, Pauloski N, Williams M, Romero-Severson J, Hoban S, Woeste K, Pike CC, Fetter KC, Webster CN, Neitzey ML, O'Neill R, Wegrzyn JL. 2024. Conserving a threatened North American walnut: a chromosome-scale reference genome for butternut (Juglans cinerea). G3 (Bethesda), 14(2), jkad189. https://doi.org/10.1093/g3journal/jkad189

Bush J, Webster CN, Wegrzyn JL, Simon C, Wilcox E, Khan R, Weisz D, Dudchenko O, Aiden EL, Frandsen P. 2024. Chromosome-level genome assembly and annotation of a periodical cicada species: Magicicada septendecula. Genome Biol Evo, 16(1), evae001. https://doi.org/10.1093/gbe/evae001